Specialty Produce
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Description

The Specialty Produce app is a hand-held reference for thousands of produce items and recipes: *Over 2,000 produce entries, ranging from the common to the exotic. *Over 12,000 recipes hand selected from respected food bloggers, chefs, authors, and journalists

Mentioned in SELF magazine as one of their favorite apps with "all sorts of cool, useful info on flavor, nutritional value, and seasonal availability, plus recipes."

For our professional users, special content and features are available via a one year, auto-renewing subscription of $2.99. The Specialty Produce Professional Content and Features subscription provides access to* Food Safety Alerts for produce items, based on data from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other government sources.* A custom picture can be added to Produce Spots, allowing you to grow consumer awareness of your produce.* Contact information can be added to Produce Spots, allowing you to grow consumer awareness of your business.* The ability to rate recipes, and share ratings with other users* The ability to add personal notes to produce items and recipes.* Elimination of banner ads.

The Professional Content and Features subscription will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase.- The subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period- The iTunes account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, for the same amount as the original subscription purchase: $2.99- Auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings on the device.- No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period. In other words, cancelling your subscription will prevent any subsequent auto-renewing, allowing your current subscription to expire at the end of the subscription period. - For Specialty Produce's Privacy Policy and Terms of Use, see http://app.specialtyproduce.com/privacypolicy.phpand http://app.specialtyproduce.com/termsofuse_ios.htm

We highly value the satisfaction of our customers. If you have any questions or concerns about the Professional Content and Features subscription (or anything else!) email us at appcomments@specialtyproduce.com for a speedy response.

What's New

Version History

3.40.2

May 31, 2018

*Fixed a bug that could cause issues when opening Universal Links

3.40.1

May 30, 2018

*From a Market Share, you can now go directly to the relevant produce article.*Added an easier way to contact us, under the "More..." screen*Updated database of produce items and curated recipes*Improved error detection and handling*GUI improvements

3.39.1

May 2, 2018

Our monthly update of the built-in produce & recipe database.

3.38.1

Apr 3, 2018

*Updated the produce & recipe database*Minor bugfixes and tweaks

3.37.1

Mar 1, 2018

*Our monthly update to the internal database of produce items and the curated recipe list.*Minor GUI tweaks to streamline the app.*Addressing a rare database corruption issue.

3.36.1

Jan 30, 2018

*Added in support for the Specialty Produce podcast "The Plated Earth". The podcast is found under the "More..." main tab.*Produce database updated to include over 2,300 produce items, and almost 13,000 curated recipes.*Improved produce searches to better handle minor differences in spelling.*Improved support for deep linking via Apple Universal Links and Facebook App Linking. *Minor GUI tweaks and bugfixes.*Updated the app to more modern coding standards and practices.

3.35.4

Nov 21, 2017

Some users noticed a bug with the app's new camera filters. The issue has been fixed.

3.35.1

Nov 18, 2017

*Various iOS 11 updates - Users can now rate the app without having to go to the Apple Store.

*GUI enhancements - Revamped the "Spotting" feature to be cleaner, and has been renamed to "Market Share" - New camera filters when taking pics within the app - Custom pictures for Market Shares are now zoomable via double-tap

3.33.1

Jul 27, 2017

This is a maintenance release:*Upgraded the internal database (over 2200 items!)*Ensured that the app will work under iOS 11 (Ensured 64 bit architectures are included)*Upgraded the Facebook SDK and Graph API. *Upgraded the Google AdMob SDK

3.32.1

May 22, 2017

*Updated database - new items and recipes along with updates to existing entries.*Sharing spots and produce items to Facebook and Twitter has been streamlined and simplified.*Tutorial popups have been added to a few screens to explain the function of certain buttons.*Minor GUI changes and bug fixes.*Crash reporting via Fabric/Crashlytics added to help us address bugs faster.

3.31.2

Apr 3, 2017

*Fixed a bug that could cause a crash on startup when run on iOS 9 devices. (The app included some iOS 10 specific code that would not run on iOS 9)*Added additional info regarding the subscription*Fixed a GPS related issue when spotting produce and manually entering a location.

3.31.1

Mar 13, 2017

*Database updated: over 2100 unique produce items, and 10,000 curated recipes.*Improved handling of network connectivity dropouts and timeouts*Upgraded internal architecture to Apple's newest libraries*Upgraded internal use of Twitter and Facebook API's*Added a link to the Terms of Use page

3.30.1

Nov 15, 2016

*Updated to over 2,000 produce items and over 12,000 curated recipes!*Bugfixes and tweaks*Updated AdMob library to most recent*Addressed minor iOS 10 issues

3.28.1

Sep 9, 2016

*Updated database with new produce items, and recipes*Minor bugfixes to the main GUI and Twitter share dialogs

3.27

Apr 15, 2016

The most comprehensive produce reference app has just gotten better:*'African Specialties' is a newly added produce category.*Item database expanded to 1,997 distinct items.*Recipe listings expanded to over 8,300.*Fixed intermittent permission Issues with sharing to Facebook.*Fixed some minor GUI issues on larger device screens.

3.26

Nov 20, 2015

*The app database has been updated to add two new categories - Cherry Tomatoes and Heirloom Tomatoes - as well as new items and recipes.*Several recipe related bugs have been fixed.*The recipe "Note" function has moved to the "Action" button when viewing a recipe.*The recipe rating system has been removed, in response to user feedback.*The app icon has changed to reflect our evolution from two apps ("PRO" and "LITE") to a single app.

3.22.4

3.21.37

Jan 26, 2015

*Minor bug fixes and GUI usability changes.

3.21.36

Jan 7, 2015

*Support for larger screen devices: iPhone 6 and 6+*Support for iOS 8*Large number of bug fixes and GUI tweaks to improve the user experience.*Expanded database: 1,600 items and 6,000 recipes!*Adoption of an subscription model for premium content and features.

3.20.0

May 17, 2014

*Fixed some bugs*Database updates: almost 100 new items and recipes

3.19.6

Apr 27, 2014

*Fixed a screen-size bug on iPhone 5*Fixed an incorrect timestamp on the database

3.19.5

Apr 24, 2014

Changes in this version==================*Spots can now include your own picture which can also be shared to Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.*Spots can now include contact information*Added the ability to search for PLU codes in the Produce Search*Updated the database to 1400 produce items, and added hundreds of new recipes!*Third party libraries (such as Facebook, Foursquare, Instagram, etc) have been updated.*Screen layouts have been optimized for larger retina screens.*Moving to a subscription model for the PRO version*iOS 5 support has been dropped, although this version still supports iOS 6.*Several changes to the Produce Categories*Font size preferences were modified in getting ready to support Dynamic Type.*Various bug fixes

May 31, 2018

Version 3.40.2

*Fixed a bug that could cause issues when opening Universal Links

Ratings and Reviews

4.8 out of 5

680 Ratings

680 Ratings

Dlfsj
05/04/2018

App is Like an Encyclopedia

We bought Ramps today. My wife was excited when she spotted them as they are never available in regular grocery stores. Looked them up on the app. While we knew these were harvested, not commercially ground, there was lots of other interesting information. Love reading about the various item we buy.

Dlfsj
05/04/2018

App is Like an Encyclopedia

We bought Ramps today. My wife was excited when she spotted them as they are never available in regular grocery stores. Looked them up on the app. While we knew these were harvested, not commercially ground, there was lots of other interesting information. Love reading about the various item we buy.

lilbutton2u
10/05/2017

What happened?

LOVE this app, have had it for years. But now I can't open it. Last time I was able to update it was in August. I'm lost without this app at the grocery, it's so informative for trying new produce. Btw, my iPad updates just fine. So, what's going on?

Developer Response
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01/29/2018

Hey lilbutton2u -- we are sorry you are experiencing difficulties! We would be happy to work with you to identify and resolve the issue. Please email us at appcomments@specialtyproduce.com so we can begin troubleshooting with you.

lilbutton2u
10/05/2017

What happened?

LOVE this app, have had it for years. But now I can't open it. Last time I was able to update it was in August. I'm lost without this app at the grocery, it's so informative for trying new produce. Btw, my iPad updates just fine. So, what's going on?

Developer Response
01/29/2018

Hey lilbutton2u -- we are sorry you are experiencing difficulties! We would be happy to work with you to identify and resolve the issue. Please email us at appcomments@specialtyproduce.com so we can begin troubleshooting with you.

Cgffj
04/24/2018

Produce manager

I found the information extremely useful and also when ever I feel like incorporating a new item in my store, I read everything about it so I can share it with my customers.

Cgffj
04/24/2018

Produce manager

I found the information extremely useful and also when ever I feel like incorporating a new item in my store, I read everything about it so I can share it with my customers.